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Anders Eliasson -> RE: Luthery creations non flamenco guitar (Jan. 21 2013 7:51:51)
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Blair, its a nice Dreadnaught. Simple and very folky. How does it play?
Stephen when you make a bown do you base it on an already known pattern, do you work your own concept or is it a mix?
All this with bows is interesting, especially when you play with a bow. Then you find out how important the bow is. When I played classical, I had very good bows and a decent to good violin. I invested more money on bows than on the instrument. Bows are so personal.
Now that I started playing the violin, my first purchase was a cheap carbon fiber bow. Even though I hadnt played the violin for +20 years, I knew right away that I couldnt live with it. It was to heavy but still to soft, ugly and I didnt like it at all.
A few month later, I found an old bow. It was very worn, had a small hole near the frog from wear, had a newer, cheap frog, the stick had lost its bow and was a bit wobbly. The stick was hard and light and felt good. Its stamped Vuillaume (copy). It had unused hairs. I bought it for 40,-€
I have given live back to bo bows before, so I found a piece of leather to put over my legs in order to not get burned and started heating the stick ove the gas in my kitchen. Home alone, of course. Slow and easy, I started making the stick straight and later to give its bow back. . It came out really well. I gave it some shellack on the stick, repaired the hole and gave it a new wrapping and leather.
Its a really nice bow now. 53 grams (it´ll be a few grams more with silver wrapping), very french in its style. Its very fast and elegant but still with a good solid tone. Next time its going to be rehaired, I will buy it a decent frog.
Its not the bow to play Brahms violin concerto in front of an orchestra with composite core strings on the violin, but for what I play and intent to play, its really nice.
And it has a story.
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